Sarah Eliman

Sarah Elimam is a doctoral student in political science at McGill University, specializing in comparative politics and international relations. Her research focuses primarily on East Asian democracies (South Korea, Japan, Taiwan) and examines state-society relations, institutional dynamics, and public-private linkages in development trajectories. She also studies the adaptation strategies of middle powers in the Asia-Pacific region in the context of great power rivalries, with a particular focus on strategic issues related to supply chains, critical infrastructure, and technological sovereignty.
A recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC/CGRS-D, 2026–2029) doctoral fellowship, she had also received an SSHRC master’s fellowship at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she completed a master’s degree in political science with a unanimous “excellent” grade.
Before beginning her doctoral studies, she worked at the Ministry of International Relations and La Francophonie and then at CIRANO, where her projects focused on issues related to international trade, supply chains, economic diplomacy, and strategic infrastructure. She is also involved in CIRANO’s research cluster on intermodal transport and international trade, whose work focuses on the St. Lawrence–Great Lakes region and Canada–U.S. relations. She serves as a teaching assistant in Southeast Asian politics at McGill.